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Elite 4 is coming - and you can help...!

Post by F9thRyker » Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:31 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165344
David Braben, one of the creators of the original, is seeking £1.25m ($2m) via Kickstarter to fund the updated version. Called Elite: Dangerous it will involve the same mix of interstellar travel, trading, piracy and spaceships as the original 8-bit game. Those who pledge cash to the project will also get a chance to shape the development of the updated version.

"Elite is a game that we've wanted to come back to for a very, very long time," Mr Braben told the BBC. "It's the sort of game that I would very much like to play today."

When Elite was first published in 1984 it instantly became a huge success. Its wire-frame 3D graphics and open-ended play across eight randomly generated galaxies was at odds with the narrow, 2D side-scrolling games that were the norm at the time.

"It changed the way that people looked at games very much for the better," said Mr Braben.

The updated version will keep the open-ended, space trading setting and will make use of modern PC power to create a vast interstellar territory that players can explore. Ships will be fitted with hyperspace drives to enable them to get around and the planets, stars, asteroid belts and other things found in deep space will be procedurally generated.

The project will be initially funded via KickStarter. If £1.25 million ($2 mil) can be raised by January, Brabens' game developer studio (Frontier Developments) will make it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/146 ... -dangerous

They have already raised £375k in the first 48 hours - but they need all the help they can get.


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Post by Starfleet Headquarters » Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:37 pm

What was Elite like in the old days? Never played it lol
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Post by F9thRyker » Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:25 pm

Elite was *the* original Space game. Open ended, trading, space combat.

Simply put, games like EvE owe their existence to Elite, and its sequels.


Add this to the fact, that the original Elite fitted an entire galaxy into a 28k program, smaller than the average email..!
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Re: Elite 4 is coming - and you can help...!

Post by MrIdentical » Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:31 am

F9thRyker wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165344
David Braben, one of the creators of the original, is seeking £1.25m ($2m) via Kickstarter to fund the updated version. Called Elite: Dangerous it will involve the same mix of interstellar travel, trading, piracy and spaceships as the original 8-bit game. Those who pledge cash to the project will also get a chance to shape the development of the updated version.

"Elite is a game that we've wanted to come back to for a very, very long time," Mr Braben told the BBC. "It's the sort of game that I would very much like to play today."

When Elite was first published in 1984 it instantly became a huge success. Its wire-frame 3D graphics and open-ended play across eight randomly generated galaxies was at odds with the narrow, 2D side-scrolling games that were the norm at the time.

"It changed the way that people looked at games very much for the better," said Mr Braben.

The updated version will keep the open-ended, space trading setting and will make use of modern PC power to create a vast interstellar territory that players can explore. Ships will be fitted with hyperspace drives to enable them to get around and the planets, stars, asteroid belts and other things found in deep space will be procedurally generated.

The project will be initially funded via KickStarter. If £1.25 million ($2 mil) can be raised by January, Brabens' game developer studio (Frontier Developments) will make it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/146 ... -dangerous

They have already raised £375k in the first 48 hours - but they need all the help they can get.


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There was Oolite a few years ago that was basically a rebuild using newer graphics, but I am looking forward to a new Elite!

Hopefully it's more than Oolite was :lol:
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Post by F9thRyker » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:58 am

Its now gone way past its funding target, and its now going to be developed for the PC (and Mac)!. Its now become the most successful Kickstarter campaign to date...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/146 ... -dangerous

12 hours left to pledge your support - £20 will pre-reserve you the game (and goodies), which will doubtless cost double that when the game is released. Get in quick!
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